Kapot Temarim and Shemot BaAretz by R. Moshe ibn Habib. Zhovkva: Shaul Dov Mayerhofer, 1832.
Copy of R. Nechemiah Alter of Ger, son of the Sefat Emet.
Signatures and stamps on title page. In three places under these stamps are ownership inscriptions handwritten and signed by R. "Nechemiah Alter" of Ger.
Signature of R. "Yaakov David Yudkevitz, residing in Serock" and his stamp: "Yaakov David son of R. Y. Yudkevitz, Rabbi of Grójec" – R. Yaakov David Yudkevitz (d. 1893), Rabbi of Grójec (Poland). Previously served as Rabbi of Serock and Żuchowice. Son of R. Yechiel Halpern [of Kalisz]. Left behind voluminous manuscripts of Torah works, of which only Yad HaKetanah was printed. His son was R. Alexander Dan Yudkevitz, author of Orach Mishor.
Handwritten gloss on leaf 1.
Later inscriptions of "Shlomo Margaliot" and stamps.

R. Nechemiah Alter (1875-1942; perished in the Holocaust), son of the Sefat Emet of Ger, brother of the Imrei Emet and father-in-law of the Lev Simchah. An outstanding Torah scholar, he left Ger for Otwock after World War I, and later immigrated to Israel in 1925 and headed the Sefat Emet yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1931 he returned to Poland and served as a member of the Council of Rabbis in Łódź. Most of his descendants perished in the Holocaust, with the exception of his eldest daughter Rebbetzin Yuta Henya, mother of the current Rebbe of Ger.

[1], 76 leaves. 37 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamps. New binding.

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Bnei Yissachar, Chassidic discourses on the festivals and months of the year, two parts – by Rebbe Tzvi Elimelech Langsam-Shapiro of Dinov. Lviv (Lemberg): published by Avraham Nisan Süss Segal, press of F. Galinski u. S. L. Flecker, 1860. Second edition. Divisional title pages for each part. Both parts in one volume.

Copy of Rebbe Mordechai Ze'ev Halberstam, Rabbi of Grybów and Sanz; his handwritten ownership inscription on the title page of Part I. Ownership stamps from his tenure as Rabbi of Grybów.
Additional ownership inscription of R. Avigdor Teitelbaum (who received it as a gift from the Rebbe) and Yosef Segal Nitborger.

Rebbe Mordechai Ze'ev Halberstam of Sanz-Grybów (1882-1942; perished in the Holocaust), son-in-law of R. Chaim Meir Epstein of Neustadt, son of Rebbe Aryeh Leibush Halberstam of Sanz, and grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Served as Rabbi in Grybów and later Sanz.

The recipient of the book is Rebbe Mordechai Ze'ev Halberstam's nephew, R. Avigdor Teitelbaum (perished in the Holocaust), Rabbi of Piwniczna and dayan and posek in Sanz. Son of R. Avraham Chaim Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Krenitz (Krynica-Zdrój), who was a son of R. Moshe David Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Târgu Lăpuș; a descendant of the Yitav Lev of Sighet and the Divrei Chaim of Sanz.

[1], 1, [2], 5-88 leaves (misfoliation); [1], 88 leaves. Approx. 25 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and tears. Margins of first title page repaired with paper. Old binding, disconnected.

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Hachanah DeRabbah, ethical will of R. Moshe son of Amram Grünwald, Rabbi of Khust (author of Arugat HaBosem). Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, [ca. 1935]. Third edition.

Copy of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenburg. At the top of the title page is his full signature (in pencil) from his tenure in Klausenburg, before the Holocaust: "Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam, Rabbi of the Sephardic community" (books surviving from the Rebbe's library in Klausenburg before the Holocaust are rare; very few of them were returned to the Rebbe's library in Kiryat Sanz).

Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenburg (1904-1994) was a leading rebbe who built up the Torah and Chassidic world in the fifty years following the Holocaust. He established the large Sanz communities in the United States, Jerusalem and Netanya, including yeshivas and Torah and charitable institutions.

[9], 3-41 pages. 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear and a few tears. New binding.

Mounted on the title page is a printed paper by R. Tzvi Glick of Shesburg (Sighișoara), son-in-law of R. Yechizkiyah Grünwald of Khust, writing that he printed this edition with the permission of the author's son, the "Rabbi of Pápa". On the verso of the title page is an additional mounted printed paper on the copyright of the book belonging only to the author's heirs.

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Shnei Luchot HaBrit (Shlah), by R. Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz. Amsterdam: Immanuel son of Josef Athias, 1698. Illustrated title page (by Avraham ben Yaakov HaGer).

Shnei Luchot HaBrit contains many halachic novellae, Kabbalistic principles, homiletics and ethics, and incorporates all realms of the Torah. The book was received with awe throughout the Jewish world, and its teachings are quoted in the books of leading poskim and kabbalists. Many renowned Chassidic leaders were extremely devoted to the study of the books of the Shlah.

This edition of the Shlah was printed in Amsterdam in 1698, the year the Baal Shem Tov was born, and Chassidic lore ties these two events. The Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch writes that the elaborate edition of the Shlah printed in the year "Nachat" ("gratification"; the numerical value of the Hebrew year 5458 [1698]) is an allusion to the heavenly gratification caused by the revelation of the holy book, leading to the birth of the Baal Shem Tov that year, a connection the Baal Shem Tov himself used to make.
Early signatures at the top of the title page and on the following leaf.

This copy belonged to R. David Sperber – the Gaon of Brașov (see below). His signature appears on the front endpaper. The book contains many glosses (over 150) handwritten by him, some lengthy. Some glosses are slightly trimmed.

[4], 422; 44; [12] leaves. 29.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and damage to title page and to several leaves. Loss to lower left corner of illustrated title page, affecting the illustration, with photocopy replacement. Stains, dark dampstains. Worming to several leaves. The book is severed into two parts. Old, damaged, detached binding.

R. David Sperber (1877-1962), leading Galician and Romanian rabbi. Born in Zablotov to a family of Kosov-Vizhnitz Chassidim, he was a disciple of R. Meir Arik and also studied under Rebbe Moshe Hager of Kosov, and prepared the latter's writings for press. From 1908, he served as dayan and posek in Polien Riskeve (Poienile de sub Munte), and from 1922 as Rabbi of Braşov (Kronstadt). In 1950, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he became known as "the Rabbi of Braşov", and served as a leader of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah and the Independent Education System. His grandson is R. Prof. Daniel Sperber.

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